Hayden Donnell is a contributing writer for The Spinoff.
Property investors are on struggle street following Labour’s big housing announcement. Hayden Donnell offers some comfort and advice to the nation’s reeling landlord class.
Politicians are constantly promising to make things easier for the drivers currently caught in Auckland’s peak hour traffic jams. Hayden Donnell argues the opposite is true.
NZ news is replete with articles on residents standing bravely in opposition to new housing developments. But what if the stories were told from another point of view?
Our special Spinoff data analysis has uncovered some disturbing findings.
Right now, our most fiery national debate is over whether New Zealanders were nice to the singer Amanda Palmer in a café.
Last night New Zealand witnessed one of the most exhilarating, confronting political stories to air on national television.
Heta Gardiner's questions offered a glimpse of a media world with different incentives, priorities and cultural values during the daily Covid-19 briefings.
Nobody loves collecting up things and trying to put them in another thing like Hayden Donnell.
Experts have made the case for tax and interest rate adjustments to address the housing crisis in recent times. Hayden Donnell makes another, highly technical suggestion.
Grab your political popcorn for a merciless appraisal of the election's high profile players.
Hayden Donnell recently spent some time in Wellington. This is his review.
The National leader was simply articulating an orthodox theological position.
Labour has made an extraordinary ascent in the polls, and is now clinging to a mostly unthreatening brand of incremental centrism. Hayden Donnell counts the cost of that strategy.
A little bit of Covid-19 is a small price to pay for a whole lot of rugby, writes Hayden Donnell
According to Property Investors Federation spokesman Andrew King, some tenants don't actually want new heat pumps.
Dozens of major cities are building cycleways and pedestrianising streets as they adapt to the post-pandemic world. What's going on in Auckland?
For every nugget of gold printed by The Spinoff, there are several more nuggets of slightly less lustrous gold. Hayden Donnell lists some of his rejected story ideas.
In New Zealand, as overseas, authorities are dealing with two parallel crises: the Covid-19 virus and the maelstrom of misinformation surrounding it.
The National Party figure thought to have adopted a fake name and called up talkback is far from the first political figure to try this tactic.
More scandal? More yaks? More Jami-Lee Ross? Read on to find out...
So shouldn't National be on board?
Winston Peters took the stage to launch an unlikely bid to stay in parliament on Sunday. Hayden Donnell went along for a close encounter with the New Zealand First faithful.
It's time we show Nigel the affection and respect he surely craved, writes Hayden Donnell.
So-called dirty deals have been roundly denounced over the years. Hayden Donnell argues that they need to be normalised, and even embraced, in September’s election.
Struggling to find the correct apportionment of blame for the failure of light rail in Auckland? Hayden Donnell is here to help.
Auckland has made painstaking progress toward becoming a functioning modern city. Now its councillors may put that in jeopardy for a proposal that will save ratepayers an average of 47 cents a week.
